I hate the new forum software bringing all these old threads up to the top, as it's virtually a daily thing anymore.
It's fun to read back through the "old days" when @eyoungren didn't have a Quicksilver and now his computer is the stuff of legends
Speaking for myself, when this thread was started I only owned one Mac, a late 2011 Macbook Pro that I bought new in March 2012. It was before I went a little nuts(or a lot nuts, as some here might say) on PowerPC computers.
I have at least one example of every "G" series computer, both desktop and laptop(including the elusive G3 Kanga) with the exception of two. I don't have an xServe G4 or an iMac G5. Not only that, but I've gotten into sub-variants. I consider there to be 8 variants of the G4 tower, and have multiple examples of each of them in various processor speeds.
It's hard to pick a favorite of all of these.
I have a Quicksilver(factory dual 1ghz) that I use pretty heavily and also use a G5 Quad at work some.
The G3 AIO is a nice, quirky machine that I really enjoy using.
I have a Cube set up on my desk, and it's a fun little computer for running OS 9 games. The one I use for that has an 800mhz/2mb Sonnet L3 upgrade and a Geforce 3. I have a bunch of other Cubes, and enjoy using all, but that one is just a great little combination of specs and works great for real-world use.
My dual 1.42 MDD is the fastest G4 I've used, and it's what I really should be using in place of the Quicksilver. In real world use, it's faster than the dual 1.8 Sonnet I have. The only thing I could really see giving it competition would be a dual 1.8 7448-based upgrade.
The iMac G3 is a timeless classic, and the G4 is as much so.
It's fun to read back through the "old days" when @eyoungren didn't have a Quicksilver and now his computer is the stuff of legends
Speaking for myself, when this thread was started I only owned one Mac, a late 2011 Macbook Pro that I bought new in March 2012. It was before I went a little nuts(or a lot nuts, as some here might say) on PowerPC computers.
I have at least one example of every "G" series computer, both desktop and laptop(including the elusive G3 Kanga) with the exception of two. I don't have an xServe G4 or an iMac G5. Not only that, but I've gotten into sub-variants. I consider there to be 8 variants of the G4 tower, and have multiple examples of each of them in various processor speeds.
It's hard to pick a favorite of all of these.
I have a Quicksilver(factory dual 1ghz) that I use pretty heavily and also use a G5 Quad at work some.
The G3 AIO is a nice, quirky machine that I really enjoy using.
I have a Cube set up on my desk, and it's a fun little computer for running OS 9 games. The one I use for that has an 800mhz/2mb Sonnet L3 upgrade and a Geforce 3. I have a bunch of other Cubes, and enjoy using all, but that one is just a great little combination of specs and works great for real-world use.
My dual 1.42 MDD is the fastest G4 I've used, and it's what I really should be using in place of the Quicksilver. In real world use, it's faster than the dual 1.8 Sonnet I have. The only thing I could really see giving it competition would be a dual 1.8 7448-based upgrade.
The iMac G3 is a timeless classic, and the G4 is as much so.